Guatemala sends more migrants to the U.S. than anywhere in Central America. What is driving so many people to leave?
Anayansi Diaz-Cortes
Reporter and Producer
Anayansi Diaz-Cortes is a reporter and producer for Reveal. Her work has been featured everywhere from All Things Considered to Radio Ambulante and This American Life. She is a recipient of the Overseas Press Club Award, the Edward R. Murrow Award, and the Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation award. She was the creator and lead producer for KCRW’s Sonic Trace, a storytelling project that was part of AIR’s Localore initiative. Previously, she produced for Radio Diaries and has done extensive reporting in both the U.S. and Mexico. She is based in Reveal's Emeryville, California, office.
Posted inHealth Care
The unpaid cost of elder care
An investigation of wage theft, harassment and intimidation in the care-home industry.
Posted inAccountability
How Donald Trump took down the Robert Mueller of Latin America
Two television stars turned presidents pledged to drain the swamp. Then they joined forces to kill a powerful anti-corruption commission in Guatemala.
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Posted inAccountability
The Robert Mueller of Latin America
The president of Guatemala had a problem. His family was being prosecuted for corruption. In steps U.S. President Donald Trump.
Posted inIn/Vulnerable
‘It felt like the floor was giving in on me.’
Part of our illustrated series on inequity in the time of pandemic.
Posted inCOVID-19
Home school
Online learning works only if you can get online. We explore why tens of thousands of families are caught on the wrong side of the digital divide.
Posted inAccountability
Harpooned by Facebook
As the pandemic sends more people online for entertainment, we look at how companies such as Facebook turn information about their users into profits.
Posted inCOVID-19
Essential workers
Farmworkers, grocery store clerks and airline employees are on the front lines of the coronavirus crisis. But what’s being done to protect them?
Posted inInequality, Kids on the Line
Six years separated
A 10-year-old girl is separated from her family at the border and enters U.S. custody. Now she’s 17 and still in a shelter. Her family can’t find her.
Posted inAccountability, Criminal Justice
Development arrested
We go to Mississippi to learn about a set of laws that automatically send kids into the adult legal system for certain crimes.